Function: user-uid

user-uid is a function defined in editfns.c.

Signature

(user-uid)

Documentation

Return the effective uid of Emacs, as an integer.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/editfns.c
{
  uid_t euid = geteuid ();
  return INT_TO_INTEGER (euid);
}